The National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Amendment Regulations 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations further amend the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations 1988 (“the principal Regulations”) which provide for the remission and repayment of certain charges which would otherwise be payable under the National Health Service Act 1977 and for the payment of travelling expenses incurred in attending hospital.

Regulation 2 amends the definition of “capital limit” as it applies to people living permanently in a nursing or residential care home or in accommodation provided by a local authority under the National Assistance Act 1948. This brings it into line with the capital limits applying under the National Assistance Act 1948 to the calculations which determine such people’s liability to pay for their care. Table A of Schedule 1 is amended to apply such capital limits to calculations pursuant to regulation 53 of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 which is applied with modifications to the remission calculations in the principal Regulations (regulation 4).

Regulation 3 amends regulation 4 of the principal Regulations to increase the income level at which recipients of tax credits are entitled to remission from charges under the principal Regulations.